CC to Charles, because his mails are e week old. Am Montag, den 24.12.2007, 22:18 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy:
> To summarise our discussion, I have created the following wiki page: > > http://wiki.debian.org/MimeTypesSupport Ok, I will take a look at it. [snip] > There are still two things I am wondering: > > - Do the packages need to depend on mime-support and shared-mime-info ? No. For shared-mime-info, packages can put their stuff into /usr/share/mime/packages even if shared-mime-info is not installed. When it gets installed, everything in the mentioned directory is processed. It is some nice-to-have for many/most? users, but nothing that must be installed. You could discuss, if the package should be part of every desktop-task (dselect and similar), if it is not yet. > - If two programs can open files with a given suffix, they have to ship the > same .sharedmimeinfo file. You mean the following case: A MIME type is not defined in the shared-mime-info database (/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml) but two programs can process it. These two programs can be installed independent from each other und you want both programs to install the file to define/detect the MIME type, right? The solution to this problem is, to request an addition of this MIME type to the shared-mime-info package. The other working solution is to use a diversion and move the file from the already installed package out of /usr/share/mime/packages. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
